Smith Chapel AME Church

Ministries at Smith Chapel AME Church

• Male Chorus
• Mass Choir
• Media Team
• Sunday School
• Usher Board
• Culinary Committee

The community around Smith Chapel AME Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

• Obesity: 46.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.4%
• Poverty Rate: 36.4% (21.9–51.0%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.9% (20.8–37.1%)
• Diabetes: 20.2%
• Unemployment: 8.7% (2.9–14.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Smith Chapel AME Church

• Free Church of God in Christ in Jesus Name — 0.2 mi away
• Crest Chapel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Starlight Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• New El Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Greater Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• True Light Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
• Skyline Heights Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Meadow Gardens Baptist Chapel Church — 0.4 mi away
• Midway Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Kingdom of God Church — 0.5 mi away